Weekend tinplate photos/video's 2/10/17!

Chris Lonero posted:

Happy weekend everyone! For some of us Patriot fans it's a little more happy so there is now way I couldn't post this car!  Now let's see your tinplate! 

 

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Here's some colorful 0 gauge from Hornby.

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Chris Lonero posted:

Happy weekend everyone! For some of us Patriot fans it's a little more happy so there is now way I couldn't post this car!  Now let's see your tinplate! 

 

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Yay!

Nothing exciting for me to post, I did return home from a couple of days out of the office to a large box on the porch.  It was a very poorly packaged 1938 American Flyer passenger set with a 4615 loco and Vanderbilt tender.  Luckily for me these things were really built well and nothing was broken.  Hopefully, this weekend I'll be able to start work on this old beast and at least get the engine back in shape and running.  I plan to restore the cars, but that may have to wait until it warms up a bit outside for the painting part.  It's a balmy 18F today.  The train is pretty complete, just missing a pair of steps from one car and the tender coupler was broken off.  It also looks as those the reverse unit may have been pilfered at some point, I'll have to rectify that. Sorry for the poor picture quality.

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Chris Lonero posted:

Happy weekend everyone! For some of us Patriot fans it's a little more happy so there is now way I couldn't post this car!  Now let's see your tinplate! 

 

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There is Bradys'  missing Jersey.

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Chris Lonero posted:

Happy weekend everyone! For some of us Patriot fans it's a little more happy so there is now way I couldn't post this car!  Now let's see your tinplate! 

 

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ooops! I should have told Atlanta fans to look away before reading this post!  

Chris Lonero posted:

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Chris Lonero posted:

Happy weekend everyone! For some of us Patriot fans it's a little more happy so there is now way I couldn't post this car!  Now let's see your tinplate! 

 

Booo

ooops! I should have told Atlanta fans to look away before reading this post!  

Congratulations Chris.  Best Super Bowl I have ever watched.  Its great to see the Great, Grand and Glorious Commissioner of the NFL eat humble pie.

I appreciate the work Chris...but something about those colors.....and I'm not an Atlanta fan either...hopefully the Black and Gold will be there next year.

got some painting done this week. still need the decals and I'll be adding lights. hope you guys like these.Thanks to Dennis Holler for the two silver cars.

before

now (guess where I got the idea?)

and thanks to a parts order from Jeff Kane, my 4-8-4 project is an actual 4-8-4. Haven't made my mind up on a pilot yet....

Excellent choice in color! They look great! 

Sent off an order for a decal set for my Lionel 601 refurb project, but in the meantime picked up this roughly 1/48 scale tinplate biplane at Hobby Lobby:

Should look sharp dragging an Ives banner behind it...

PD

One of the most popular JEP locomotive, the 240 streamlined. It had a long production time from 1935 to 1960 with many motor variations, auto or manual reverse, litho or painted and with or without smoke deflectors. Certainly one of the most comon JEP engine, it is a middle range model and production has been important and it is a fun model to collect with all those variations and not expensive also.

The two first models are post war and the others post 1945 to 1960.

Have a great tinplate weekend,   Daniel

Dave, those passenger cars look great!  Hopefully I can get my new AF passenger cars restored as quickly as you  did with yours!

Daniel, Thanks for posting, those engine's are interesting and I see several listed on ebay FR.  I'm still waiting for the first of the JEP and LR cars I have purchased to arrive, but at the same time I am trying to learn as much as I can and keep an active eye out in case I see anything I can't pass up.  I'm keeping an eye on a green LR BB0401 loco and a few coaches now as well as a few others.  We'll see, it is fun to try something new and learn about it.

Australian 11-inch Wyn-Toy 425 floor train I picked up years ago that looks very similar to the Marx Lumar floor engines but use hollow steel wheels instead of wood.

Wyn-Toy also made small Hornby-like 2-rail clockwork sets.

...get that excess baggage on the express baggage and letter fly - baggage and postal cars

 American Flyer

AMT

Bing

Fandor

Hafner

Ives

JEP

KBN

Marx

Thomas Industries

seen on the layout this week , I run my lti cars with the blue af loco,,,like the look better

As I have collected Pre War American Flyer equipment over the years I have been impressed with the way that Flyer adapted their designs for cars for both Wide and Narrow Gauge.  They frequently used the same colors too.  Here are some examples:

Tank Car

Lithographed Passenger cars

Enameled Box Cars

Enameled Narrow Gauge Passenger Cars

And lets add in an Enameled 14" Wide Gauge Passenger Car for comparison

Lumber Cars

And some color variations

Just a few photos from  the archives

Greg

Northwoods Flyer

terry hudon posted:

seen on the layout this week , I run my lti cars with the blue af loco,,,like the look better

The head end cars look really good on the Hiawatha. The BC head end car also looks good.

pd posted:

Sent off an order for a decal set for my Lionel 601 refurb project, but in the meantime picked up this roughly 1/48 scale tinplate biplane at Hobby Lobby:

Should look sharp dragging an Ives banner behind it...

PD

 

PD,

I just checked Hobby Lobby's website and this plane and two other styles are on sale for $5.00 a piece.  Could you post a photo of the plane and a Flyer car together as a size comparison?  Thanks.  You could have an airshow on your layout for not very much money.

Greg

Here you go Greg...biplane, Flyer 3207 and a Dinky 23G:

In the brick-and-mortar store this was the only version I found on the shelf (they had a few of them in stock). It came with RAF roundels affixed to the upper wing, but those were easy to peel off for a more civilian-look.

I have a set of AF Lines Air Service decals around here somewhere...I was thinking a pair of those might look appropriate on the fuselage.

PD

PD,

Very nice.  Thank you.  I'd say that is close enough for tinplate. I placed an order for several of them. The Air Service decals are a good idea.  I will have to look for some of them.

I just went back and checked the website to post some photos of the other metal planes and this is the only one left.  I ordered mine last night.  I wonder if I got the last of the other models?  We'll have to wait and see.

Greg

Northwoods Flyer

PS

These are the other two models that I ordered.  I found the photos on my order confirmation.

Greg - Here's a source...pricey but high quality.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Americ...AF-001-/371679209849

PD

F&G RY posted:

terry hudon posted:

seen on the layout this week , I run my lti cars with the blue af loco,,,like the look better

The head end cars look really good on the Hiawatha. The BC head end car also looks good.

both are mth,,,the bc car has the lower trucks,so I but on a af coupler on the one end bingo,,,,i love the bc American flyer loco,its traditional,wish it was ps2,,,,,but it does have the swinging bell,just miss a whistle,terry

Hi Gang

Here's the report from Sanibel/Ft Myers FL..  They actually had a train show in Ft Myers last weekend.  It was a lot of fun, but not surprisingly there was little for "true" collectors, and nothing from the UK or the continent.  Beggars can't be choosy however, and I came away with this interesting Dorfan UP boxcar complete with brake wheel, but no journal boxes or automatic couplers.  It is my first Dorfan boxcar. They made 2 others -- NYC and PRR in O Gauge and a total of 10 freight cars. I 'm only interested in the boxcars, so we'll see when I find the two others.

Schneider

I like that! something else for my watch list. I got this last Christmas.

Lewrail and Dave - I put this picture up on this  thread several weeks ago but since you are both talking Dorfan box cars - here's the encore for the Pennsy version for your viewing pleasure. 

Here's one of the prized items in my collection. I remember when my Dad found this set. He bought it from someone who responded to his classified ad back in the 70's, and I'll never forget how thrilled he was to find a Macy Special. 

Picked up this closed spoke Marx 999 back in December at a local train show. The wheels were locked up but the motor hummed when power was applied. Took some time today to tear it down and see what was the matter. After some cleaning and lubing and a little "massage therapy" she began to loosen up and run pretty smoothly.

this found it's way to my door this week.bought it off a forum member. not supposed to b running.put it on the track and it runs beautifully. came with a Lionel tender.  have an orphan wedge tender...but way too small. tried my NKP tender and it looks great. looks like I need to find another one.

Greg J. Turinetti posted:

pd posted:

Sent off an order for a decal set for my Lionel 601 refurb project, but in the meantime picked up this roughly 1/48 scale tinplate biplane at Hobby Lobby:

Should look sharp dragging an Ives banner behind it... PD

PD, I just checked Hobby Lobby's website and this plane and two other styles are on sale for $5.00 a piece.  Could you post a photo of the plane and a Flyer car together as a size comparison?  Thanks.  You could have an airshow on your layout for not very much money. Greg

Thanks for the info guys. I've seen these in my area at closer to Standard Gauge and had ideas for a flatcar load. (with a little surgery) I hadn't seen them in O 'tinscale' yet.

Jim Kelly-Evans posted:

Here's some colorful 0 gauge from Hornby.

 

The Danish company Pionér Expressen made in the fifties some colorful tinplate clockwork trains in 0 gauge that looked a lot like Hornby; they also used a coupling resembling the Hornby automatic coupling. When I bought the tank car I first thought it was Hornby but it is clearly marked Pioner Expressen from Danmark:

Regards

Fred

Okay not sure this would classify as a tinplate but it is prewar ( well the motor part is ) and then a Tinplate Trolley shell put on it. It's a 3 rail American Flyer power source and the shell not sure of the maker but it is a nice Kit bash somebody did. I got this at a auction one night 

sncf231e posted:

Jim Kelly-Evans posted:

Here's some colorful 0 gauge from Hornby.

 

The Danish company Pionér Expressen made in the fifties some colorful tinplate clockwork trains in 0 gauge that looked a lot like Hornby; they also used a coupling resembling the Hornby automatic coupling. When I bought the tank car I first thought it was Hornby but it is clearly marked Pioner Expressen from Danmark:

Regards

Fred

Great Fred, thanks, another manufacturer to search for now. Had never heard of them before. Some of my Danish Wittrock cars have the same trucks.

I also found a photo of a Wittrock and Pioneer sets together

our local antique mall has had these Marklin switches for a while now. two of these, and two shorter ones. $9.99 each. I look at them each time we're there, if they were O27 I probably woulda picked them up by now. That and having to tear up some track to find a spot for them....